April 22, 2025 • 27 mins
Equal Pay Day might have been recognized last month, but on this show the fight for equal pay is every day. On this episode of Hasta Abajo, Meli and Cami discuss the pay gap and how playing for pride and not pay is no longer an option for women athletes.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to us. So ho you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
One of the main reasons that Melly and I wanted
to start a podcast is to talk about important topics
that are underrepresented, especially in our community.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And today, Kami, we have a big one and one
that's really important, I think for both of us, especially
as Latinas. And one of the reasons why we did
start this podcast, and that is going to be knowing
your work.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Let's go, baby, I'm ready, and let's just start with
the facts. Women working full time in the US are
paid eighty three percent of what men earn.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
At the current rate of.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Change, we won't achieve pay equality until twenty eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yo, how old are you going to be in twenty
eighty eight? That's what I want to know, almost Ay said, disgusting.
I hate that so much.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Melle, Yeah, school, yeas cool, Gomy. Now it's true. This
is exactly why we want to touch upon this topic
in one of our first episodes, because it's one that
is near and dear to our hearts, something that we
both have experienced within, whether that's me in my sports
background as a former pro soccer player and then also
transitioning into a broadcasting and on camera career. Right now,
(01:18):
when you say women working full time jobs are only
paid eighty three percent of what men earn, it's guys,
you need to be shocked by this, right, But we
also have to try to change this narrative.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Shocked, empowered, ready to continue, you know, Okay, which is
why I think it's important for us to have this
conversation too, and not only you know, in day to
day life, Like, let's just be real, like the.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Gap is even bigger than women in sports. Absolutely, I
mean I went through it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
There was a there was a time in my career
on the Columbia national team just off like World Cup
or Olympics, I was getting paid twenty dollars a day. Okay,
hence why I had to quickly that's.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Like a one latte in New York literally no almond milk,
not even a salad, a side of avocado girl.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Mineto winds size. So yeah, that's yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That was one of the reasons why I actually fought
against the federation alongside one of my teammates, because.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's because that's so scary and.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
One day I'll give you the full story on that
for sure, but it's when you compare it and just
like the stat I just said, you know, the men's
team at the time were making, so they were making
more than five times of what we were making, which
still isn't that much. But anyways, I want to relate
this to current news and even current sports. One of
the names I want to drop is Kaitlyn Clark, w
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a sleigh queen.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I love her, and of course we have to give
credit to all the women before Kaitlyn Clark and all
the w NBA players, but she's the one who has
sold out stadium as of recent whether that was in
her time at University of Iowa women's basketball team or
in this WNBA and guys, she also signed a Nike
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deal that's worth twenty eight million dollars over eight years.
You could say she's getting all these deals left in right, Gatorade, Nike, YadA, YadA, YadA,
But yet she doesn't even earn enough to be among
the top fifty highest paid athletes.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
In the world. Did I just say twenty eight million
dollars just from one marketing deal?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Literally, So these are this is just a prime example
of what it's like to be a woman who is
absolutely crushing it in their sport and isn't even reaching
that percentage or charnicle of other high paid athletes. If
you put in of course, like Ciano, Ronaldo or Messi
into this equation, you forget about it. They're making two
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hundred and fifty million, one hundred and eighty million dollars
a year, whereas you're seeing.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
A year is crazy. A year is crazy. It is
it is.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Rex would have so many different treats and doghouses. Rex
is my dog, you guys, by the way, his Latino
name is. That's what I would spend all my income on.
I'd be like, Rex, what do you want, Let's get
you eight brothers.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You wouldn't get a house on the beach. You'd give
Rex probably a better life.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Start with Rex's lifestyle first, and then I would I
would move on, you know, with buying my my, my family,
you know mad you know, homes so that they can
feel secure for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So with Rex about Rex, I mean, if Rex makes
more money, that means other dogs can make more money exactly.
And that's what we want to say here. Yeah, we
want to help elevate women, especially Latinas because COMI if
you are pushing the bowl, if you're say you're making
twenty eight million dollars on a deal like Kitlyn Clark,
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that allows for other talent, other women, other athletes, other
Latinas to be able to reach that benchmark as well.
And that's what we want to make sure that it
is cont doing to be pushed and she's.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Doing a lot of work, you know, to open up
that conversation and advocate for her other team members as.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, which I have a lot of respect for.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But there was also another study, a parody study that
said that unequal pay like it affects the mental health
of these athletes, Like it's it's it's tough to you know,
be playing the sport and like be in these situations
where you have to constantly advocate for yourself in addition
to perform at such.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A high state.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You're always on right in these games, you have to
perform well. And when seventy eight percent of women in
sport of the five hundred professional athletes that were surveyed
are making less than fifty thousand dollars a year or
in twenty twenty three, and then fifty eight percent earning
less than twenty five thousand dollars a year, Like that's
not a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Of money at all.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And these teams are getting exposure, right, so like okay,
And some people might argue like meley, okay, like less
people watch women's sports then they do men's sports.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Like what do you have to say about that?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
All right, this is a this is a good topic.
It's a great question.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Formy, yeah, a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's like, oh, you think that you know, female soccer
players should be making just as much money as the Mets.
This is my opinion on this. It's like, it's a business,
the sports business at the end of the day. So
of course, if a men's league or club are generating
more revenue, they're going to have more a larger budget
to be able to pay their their athletes. Same goes
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for women.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You know, their work.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
These clubs in these leagues are working with their budgets
to pay their female athletes. Now, what I want to
say is that for however many decades or even let's
go centuries here, women's sports.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
If you look at a supermarket, if you're on a.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Shelf, you're looking they put society and all these executives,
usually white male executives, put women's sports in the back.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
The back of the shelfs okay.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So who in the who when you go to there,
when you go to the milk section, they're gonna be like, yeah,
you want whole milk. So they put the whole milk
to the front. And everyone's like, oh, yeah, we love
whole milk. Whole milk. You've seen how many ads about
whole milk, and you're like, oh, whole milk is the
best kind of milk. And then they put, you know,
the almond milk in the back exactly. Not to say
one is better than the other, you guys, but I'm
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just making an example, like maybe nobody knew almond milk
is a thing until people are like, hey, almond milk
is here, and it's amazing exactly, just as good and
just as exciting.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And how big is the almond milk market now?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh? Huge, huge, just like women's sports exactly, sports is
popping off, y all.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This is a great analogy.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I love it so much because finally women's sports has
been placed on the shelf to the front, and more
brands are creating women's sports opportunities, yes, teams, leagues, as
well as putting sponsorship dollars towards it in marketing dollars,
so that people like you and me are able to
see it, are able to view it. Are you able
to see games on your normal basis, on your day
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to day lives rather than going into a paywall or
going into some I don't know, ten million channels just
to get to a game if it was even being rared.
So point of this is to say that where women's
sports is growing, it's only also kind of like the beginning,
because it's gonna be one percent to keep on growing.
And it's people like, let's just say Caitlin Clark's people
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like even we're talking about basketball Sue Bird back in
the day before she retired. It's female soccer players like
Marta and Alex Morgan who just recently retired. And it's
to this recent news which happened a few months ago,
Naomi Germa just signed for Chelsea for a record fee
of one point one million dollars. Y'all, you I could
(08:31):
even say two years ago that number wasn't even something
that like you'd even joke about because it wasn't ever
normal or possible. But now the valuation of players and
that clubs and les are putting on these on these
players is continuing to grow. And that's what I want
to say is that when one athlete, well one female athlete,
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when one let's just say Latina sets that bar, the
bar is only going to keep on growing and it's
going to provide more of a pathway for other people
to be able to reach it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And you see, like, you know, when we are giving
this opportunity as women to hold the stage, to hold space,
like it was with the Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano fight.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You watch that fight.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, that fight was insane.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Also, Amanda Sano was robbed. I'm just gonna drop that there.
I think she should have won. I was so upset.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
But like, they earned millions of dollars for that boxing match,
and it was like the best match of the night.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Everybody talked about it. They were like and this is
women in boxing.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Absolutely, Like everyone was like, oh, the main card had
had nothing on this. So they earned like six point
one million for Katie Taylor earned six point one million
for the fight, and Serrano reportedly earned around eight million
for that fight, which is huge progress even though yeah,
it's progress because it's it was the best fight of
the night. Yet they made you know, a tenth if
not less than that of like what these tien and
(09:55):
oh yeah, let's not even get started there, right, but
it is nice to see that when we we are
given those opportunities to perform on a big stage, you know,
it is being recognized.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's just about you know.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Also, I was thinking, like our entire lives, you know,
we were told like being too muscular, being too athletic.
It's like not feminine, it's not what we're supposed to do.
You have to stay at home, take care of the family,
and that has recently stopped, like you know, very very recently.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
So now you know, society, our community.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, especially in the Latino community. So now society is
getting a little bit more used to like, oh okay,
like this is it. Women in sport is a new thing, right, yeah,
and it doesn't that's not to say that it's not
going to be extremely successful. Like we you know, we've
been around playing sport for a very long time. But
socially accepted, valued, cherished, and championed is what we want
this to be.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
At the same that it is with men in sport
coming out.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I could talk to you from my own experience. I
am born and raised in South Florida. My parents are
both Colombian and when I got the opportunity to try
out for the Colombian national team at eighteen years old,
I went down alone. My parents didn't come with me
on that and Untio Lejano, like, I don't know, second
uncle picked me up from the airport and he my
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mom had shared with him, like, yeah, she's gonna go
there for a soccer tryout with the national team. And
at the time, like there was no coverage, nobody really
even knew that the national team even existed. The women's
national team, of course, because in the men's there was rama.
You know, everybody knew the men's team. And I will
never forget the moment at eighteen years old where women's
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soccer in the United States was normal. It was it's
It was the most popular women's growing sport in the
country because of the nineteen ninety nine ers Julie Faudi
et cetera. And I get there and my TiO Lejandro
Lehano told me, what are you doing, mi Haakiasis, like
what are you doing? You know, Aquro, yes, exactly exactly.
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And when he said that, I was a little bit
like taken aback. I was confused because I knew that
in the States, it's not like that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It was not like that.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I did see, you know, somewhat of a future, but
it wasn't about that. It was more about like the
passion and the way that he just it totally like
just took away that like that feeling I had, like,
oh my god, I'm about to go travel my national team.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
No, no, it was that Hugando football.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
So that's one example of how our Latin culture has
kind of pushed girls. I was a girl or just
you know, eighteen years old, young woman out of sport. Yeah,
to push me to get out of sport, you know,
that wasn't my place to be. And also it's so
important because what sport has done for me in my life.
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I never would have imagined if I look back at
eighteen year old man, of what soccer or sports in
general have.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Done for me. Right, it's incredible, it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I am the person that I am today and I
am the fighter that I am today because of everything
that I learned, you know, through running cross country, running distance,
running marathons, dancing professionally. It's a lot of you know,
learning that you have about yourself, and it's even entrepreneurship
because you're like fighting for yourself for a team, You're
learning how to work with people, You're learning how to
work together. It teaches you so much about life and
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about how to compete, but in also a way that's
healthy with other.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
People that surround you. That's just so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So it makes me really sad too when we hear
stories about girls in sport that are not being motivated
to like follow their dreams because they don't think that
there is a future there.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And I totally understand sometimes with like immigrant parents.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, we're both latinas I was worning on Adina
grew up in Miami. You know, with immigrant parents, sometimes
they want to look out for you and they're like,
what are you going to do? You need to be now, Dora,
you need to be an attorney, Like how is fitness
going to be the thing? But you know, if you
are working really hard towards something, you can make it happen.
But I know that it's very frustrating sometimes, you know,
when you work so hard and you are on par
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with these people that you're working with, and yet you
are not being compensated fairly.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Right, So I have my.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Personal experiences, you know, with unfairness, you know, and pay gap, right,
So like there are brands you know that I work
with outside and opportunities that I'm given outside of my
peloton job. And I had conversations with which thankfully, I
think it's very important for us Las Latinas and as
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women and women in your same space to feel more
confident and empowered to talk about how much money you're making,
to talk about finances so we can become more financially literate.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And it doesn't end that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I getra like it did for me, but also so
you're aware of the things that you could fight for, right.
I had a conversation you know with my male counterpart
who we have you know, the same what print on
social the same footprint or whatever, and they were offered
around forty five percent higher by the same brand for.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
A deal with the same deal points. Why Yeah, just
because I'm a woman.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
There's no there's no there's no reasoning behind it. There's
literally wonder I wonder, I wonder, like who is that person?
It's like, you know what, you know, we're gonna offer
commed this much you know, right.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Well, it's also different departments to different departments have different
marketing budgets, like multicultural marketing. What is multicultural marketing number one?
And why is the budget so small? Where like Latinos,
we have so much money to spend.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Like we're not just poor, you guys, Like we.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Have money, biggest one of the biggest impacting growth in
the economy actually the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
One thousand, one thousand percent.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And then bringing it back to the general market, Latina
Equal Payday is in October. So Latinas make fifty eight
cents to the dollar to white non Hispanic males, right,
So that means that we have to work once the
year ends from January all the way to October to
make the same amount of money that are white non
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Hispanic counterparts make.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Which we repeat that Latinas make fifty eight sense to
white non Hispanic dollars dollar. That is insane. That is
insane and absolutely ridiculous. Another another thing to share with
you all, because we want to we want to heighten
you up like we want to hype you up. We
want you to go out and know your worth. We
want you to get what you deserve. But also just
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know this is the background information. This is why we
need to come together as a community to break this narrative,
to break these on average, Latina workers stand to lose
more than one point two million dollars throughout their lifetime
over the course of let's say a forty year career.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
My face, if you could see my face right now,
it's like you have like cockupf face cockface.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah no, but seriously, in comparison to a non Hispanic
white man, we are the gap is one point two
million dollars over the course of a career forty your career.
That is absolutely insane. That's that's even creating and helping
next generations generational wealth, right, I mean, and Gumi, I
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have a very similar experience as yours, where thankfully and
you know, we have allies in our life, right right,
it's thankful to your coworker that shared and was open.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Right that I found out about that. Right it could
be like, hey, no, this is messed up, like I'm
not going to do this exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, and imagine if you would have taken that and
then it could affect you, know, how you perform.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I wanted to take it, honestly, it was a dream
for me, like I dreamt of working at this capacity
with this brand and with these people, but I refuse
to do it because I wanted to stand up not
only for myself but for other Latinas to come in
the space. We can't continue to accept that from people
that should know better, even though they have different marketing budgets,
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Like that's not necessarily an excuse any.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
More, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So I'm very thankful and grateful because I see my
friends as allies that I can talk to, not only
my male counterparts, which is extremely helpful to have that
my female counterparts as well. And I just also want
to make it clear that I'm lucky enough to.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Not face that happened to me at Peloton.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm very fairly compensated, and you know, I have spoken
to my male counterparts about like what they're making, and
I'm very happy and proud to be able to say
that I work at a place where that's not the case.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
For sure, absolutely absolutely, And I am super thankful to
my other brands. Take notes literally literally in broadcasting, it
happens too, and I've worked for a ton of networks,
so yeah, of course, of whatever years, and I'm also
thankful to friends of mine as well, who have been
open to tell me and I've said note to things.
I have said yes to things of course to get
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those opportunities. But it's it's as you say, it's not
schools with that type of huge pay guy that both
you and I commie have and continue to to go through.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But we don't want we don't want you guys to
feel defeated, right like, we don't We want we want
to feel empowered to stand in our worth and to
fight for what's ours right. So your voice, your unique voice,
is valuable. Your unique voice matters, and our unique voice
needs to be represented at every single table female Latina
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Bipop communities. We need to be present in rooms where
people are making decisions about our communities. And if not,
we need to continue to cultivate great relationships with people
with allies that value us and that can't stand up
for us and be that voice in these rooms where
we're not present, and once we continue to stand in
that power and other people create opportunities for us, you know,
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reach back to and grab somebody from our community and
bring them up with us, you know, amen. My goal
in the position that I'm in right now is to
create as much awareness and and and space and be
so unapologetic about who I am and what I represent
that it just continues to build space, awareness, hype, visibility
for all the people. And then we continue to grow
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and create more space. You know, at Poton, there's nobody
else that's teaching classes in Spanish at the capacity that
we're doing in such a large fitness capacity. Like, I'm
so proud to be representing that for us. So we
have to continue to like stand in our worth, like
understand that our value is not necessarily tied to not
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necessarily our value is absolutely not tied to what other
people consider our value to be. Our voice matters because
of who we are, where we were born, experiences that
we've had.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And add that bilingual to that dollar.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Oh yeah, translator translating is extra on that note.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Let's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So when we come back, I'm sharing an album I'm
loving and Mel has some sports for you.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Do not go anywhere. Although I know that we can
talk about this topic forever. Welcome back, y'all.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Okay, every episode, Camie and I are going to leave
you with two of the things that we love the most.
For Kami, it's Moaby and for me, I said football.
So when I was thinking about this segment, like what
do we call this? And I was thinking about soccer,
you know, having an assist to a goal in Colombia
A there's a saying and it's agama.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
When it happens is when you're on the field and
someone crosses you the ball in that moment when they
see you and you're about to get that ball and
score it, you scream in the air so that you
scored that that cross that you're about to assue.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Because the person that gets the recognition is the person
that scores the goal.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Unless people know about sport and they're like watch that past.
So you know what, I Am going to get you
with the biggest assists and muse it and then Meli's
gonna hook you up with sports so that when you
take over the ox scord at your party, you don't
play you know, some whack ass songs that like everyone's
gonna be like, okay, sit down in it time for
you know you're not gonna get no no, no, no no,
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And Meli's got your back, so that when you're talking
to people about you know, sports, you sound, knowledgeable.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
And also to to grow your passion and love for
women's sports and women supporting other women.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Because we're not perfect and we are trying to continue
right to support absolutely. Okay, So I got you with music?
What do I have on repeat? Right now? I have
the preview of the new group? Have you heard of them?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I have?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
This is the latest news right yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
This is Rawayana and my Sterio, members from both of
those groups, which if you have not heard Rawayana and SiO,
you're living like you need a pat like come out
of your rock because they are absolutely iconic and they
have teamed up together. And this is one is near
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and dear to my heart because they're releasing twelve tracks
on this album and they're all tied to the zodiac signs.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
A girl, you love zodiac signs, I'm not good at it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You know them like, okay, but I don't know that
much like there's some people that like, you know, No,
I'm not an astrologist, okay, but I aspire to know.
I know a lot about my sign, okay, which technically
leads me I'm a sage.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Technically that leads me to have a lot of excuses.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
About my behaviors and not take a lot of responsibility
because you know, I am direct, I do like to travel,
and I am very last minute and spontaneous, but.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You are no excuses. What's your sign again, I'm Aquarius, Aquarius?
What's aquarii?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Aquerii is go with the flow, creative, We're like the water,
but also like to be energetic, okay, pumped up people.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
We like to go full force, have big energy.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
And I love that about you, thank you, because I'm
going more go with the flow and Meli is a
little bit more of a planner I think. Anyway, coming
back to the album, Lisa and they are released a
couple of tracks Metpasa, which is Pisces right, it's like
lush afro beats.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I love that one.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
So once you remember a song, oh my god, I'm
so proud of you around.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, and then there's gas for how do you say
that in English? Taro Taurus Taurus, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That one I feel like it is very fun like
the beat is like very like lively.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And then as which is a scorpio.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That's scorpio because you're wondering that was more passionate and
I like that it's like God as Ona intro talking
about the heart.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
My husband's a Scorpio. I'm scared of scorpio intense.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know, honestly, I'm married to a scorpio and you know,
I'm gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
If you're a scorpi, let us know. We need to
know how you how you are. They're intense.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
They're intense, but they're very passionate, and they're very loving,
and they're very loyal, right, they always got your back,
so fear not. Anyway, I'm really excited for the rest
of the tracks to drop, and they're gonna continue to drop,
so make sure that you check them out and then
obviously thank me later because this is like the perfect
like beach vibes, and if you watch the music videos
that they release, absolutely iconic and I'm a huge Bale
(25:25):
my studio fan. You know, my uh peloton like release
like launch video was inspired by bone myst video, so
it hold they hold the very and.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
If you guys don't know, has done incredible collapse even
what's the one with Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah that's a good one. But already, like there's just
so so many tracks that they have already and just
to like play it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I have them in my backgroundhen I'm working. Sometimes it's
a good mood.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I just like I want to hang out with them
me too, Like just like maybe we should have them all?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Maybe we should. Yeah, Okay, well, don't make that happen
if almost not me?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Like, what are tips if we want to get into
watching women's sports, because this is one of our first
episodes and the goal here is to get us all
into it.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Absolutely, guys. I know, even from experience and within my community,
a lot of us might not watch sports or women's sports,
and this is about women empowering and supporting other women,
as we talked about everyone everyone, as we talked about
earlier in this episode, when one women succeeds, it makes
and it allows another woman to succeed. And it's the
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same in our community. So my tip for you coming
and our listeners is to be more involved. Okay, if
say on the TV, a men's game is playing, awesome,
enjoy it, but also remember there's a women's game, whether
it's at WNBA, whether that's NWSL, whether it's women's soccer,
whether it's the US women's national team, Calemby National team,
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whatever it is, whether it's boxing too. We need to
change the narrative and we need to make sure that
we are supporting our own people, our own fellow women,
who are all so breaking barriers and creating opportunities for us,
for creating opportunities for future generations and maybe for our
daughters one day.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, well this is it for today's episode. Thank you
guys so much for listening in. For more podcasts, listen
to the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen
your favorite shows. Until then, keep dropping it low an
(27:34):
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and Entertainment.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
For more podcasts, listen to the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows,
Welcome to us. So ho you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
One of the main reasons that Melly and I wanted
to start a podcast is to talk about important topics
that are underrepresented, especially in our community.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And today, Kami, we have a big one and one
that's really important, I think for both of us, especially
as Latinas. And one of the reasons why we did
start this podcast, and that is going to be knowing
your work.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Let's go, baby, I'm ready, and let's just start with
the facts. Women working full time in the US are
paid eighty three percent of what men earn.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
At the current rate of.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Change, we won't achieve pay equality until twenty eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yo, how old are you going to be in twenty
eighty eight? That's what I want to know, almost Ay said, disgusting.
I hate that so much.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Melle, Yeah, school, yeas cool, Gomy. Now it's true. This
is exactly why we want to touch upon this topic
in one of our first episodes, because it's one that
is near and dear to our hearts, something that we
both have experienced within, whether that's me in my sports
background as a former pro soccer player and then also
transitioning into a broadcasting and on camera career. Right now,
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when you say women working full time jobs are only
paid eighty three percent of what men earn, it's guys,
you need to be shocked by this, right, But we
also have to try to change this narrative.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Shocked, empowered, ready to continue, you know, Okay, which is
why I think it's important for us to have this
conversation too, and not only you know, in day to
day life, Like, let's just be real, like the.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Gap is even bigger than women in sports. Absolutely, I
mean I went through it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
There was a there was a time in my career
on the Columbia national team just off like World Cup
or Olympics, I was getting paid twenty dollars a day. Okay,
hence why I had to quickly that's.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Like a one latte in New York literally no almond milk,
not even a salad, a side of avocado girl.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Mineto winds size. So yeah, that's yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That was one of the reasons why I actually fought
against the federation alongside one of my teammates, because.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's because that's so scary and.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
One day I'll give you the full story on that
for sure, but it's when you compare it and just
like the stat I just said, you know, the men's
team at the time were making, so they were making
more than five times of what we were making, which
still isn't that much. But anyways, I want to relate
this to current news and even current sports. One of
the names I want to drop is Kaitlyn Clark, w
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a sleigh queen.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I love her, and of course we have to give
credit to all the women before Kaitlyn Clark and all
the w NBA players, but she's the one who has
sold out stadium as of recent whether that was in
her time at University of Iowa women's basketball team or
in this WNBA and guys, she also signed a Nike
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deal that's worth twenty eight million dollars over eight years.
You could say she's getting all these deals left in right, Gatorade, Nike, YadA, YadA, YadA,
But yet she doesn't even earn enough to be among
the top fifty highest paid athletes.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
In the world. Did I just say twenty eight million
dollars just from one marketing deal?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Literally, So these are this is just a prime example
of what it's like to be a woman who is
absolutely crushing it in their sport and isn't even reaching
that percentage or charnicle of other high paid athletes. If
you put in of course, like Ciano, Ronaldo or Messi
into this equation, you forget about it. They're making two
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hundred and fifty million, one hundred and eighty million dollars
a year, whereas you're seeing.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
A year is crazy. A year is crazy. It is
it is.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Rex would have so many different treats and doghouses. Rex
is my dog, you guys, by the way, his Latino
name is. That's what I would spend all my income on.
I'd be like, Rex, what do you want, Let's get
you eight brothers.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You wouldn't get a house on the beach. You'd give
Rex probably a better life.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Start with Rex's lifestyle first, and then I would I
would move on, you know, with buying my my, my family,
you know mad you know, homes so that they can
feel secure for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So with Rex about Rex, I mean, if Rex makes
more money, that means other dogs can make more money exactly.
And that's what we want to say here. Yeah, we
want to help elevate women, especially Latinas because COMI if
you are pushing the bowl, if you're say you're making
twenty eight million dollars on a deal like Kitlyn Clark,
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that allows for other talent, other women, other athletes, other
Latinas to be able to reach that benchmark as well.
And that's what we want to make sure that it
is cont doing to be pushed and she's.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Doing a lot of work, you know, to open up
that conversation and advocate for her other team members as.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, which I have a lot of respect for.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But there was also another study, a parody study that
said that unequal pay like it affects the mental health
of these athletes, Like it's it's it's tough to you know,
be playing the sport and like be in these situations
where you have to constantly advocate for yourself in addition
to perform at such.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A high state.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You're always on right in these games, you have to
perform well. And when seventy eight percent of women in
sport of the five hundred professional athletes that were surveyed
are making less than fifty thousand dollars a year or
in twenty twenty three, and then fifty eight percent earning
less than twenty five thousand dollars a year, Like that's
not a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Of money at all.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And these teams are getting exposure, right, so like okay,
And some people might argue like meley, okay, like less
people watch women's sports then they do men's sports.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Like what do you have to say about that?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
All right, this is a this is a good topic.
It's a great question.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Formy, yeah, a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's like, oh, you think that you know, female soccer
players should be making just as much money as the Mets.
This is my opinion on this. It's like, it's a business,
the sports business at the end of the day. So
of course, if a men's league or club are generating
more revenue, they're going to have more a larger budget
to be able to pay their their athletes. Same goes
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for women.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You know, their work.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
These clubs in these leagues are working with their budgets
to pay their female athletes. Now, what I want to
say is that for however many decades or even let's
go centuries here, women's sports.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
If you look at a supermarket, if you're on a.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Shelf, you're looking they put society and all these executives,
usually white male executives, put women's sports in the back.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
The back of the shelfs okay.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So who in the who when you go to there,
when you go to the milk section, they're gonna be like, yeah,
you want whole milk. So they put the whole milk
to the front. And everyone's like, oh, yeah, we love
whole milk. Whole milk. You've seen how many ads about
whole milk, and you're like, oh, whole milk is the
best kind of milk. And then they put, you know,
the almond milk in the back exactly. Not to say
one is better than the other, you guys, but I'm
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just making an example, like maybe nobody knew almond milk
is a thing until people are like, hey, almond milk
is here, and it's amazing exactly, just as good and
just as exciting.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And how big is the almond milk market now?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh? Huge, huge, just like women's sports exactly, sports is
popping off, y all.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This is a great analogy.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I love it so much because finally women's sports has
been placed on the shelf to the front, and more
brands are creating women's sports opportunities, yes, teams, leagues, as
well as putting sponsorship dollars towards it in marketing dollars,
so that people like you and me are able to
see it, are able to view it. Are you able
to see games on your normal basis, on your day
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to day lives rather than going into a paywall or
going into some I don't know, ten million channels just
to get to a game if it was even being rared.
So point of this is to say that where women's
sports is growing, it's only also kind of like the beginning,
because it's gonna be one percent to keep on growing.
And it's people like, let's just say Caitlin Clark's people
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like even we're talking about basketball Sue Bird back in
the day before she retired. It's female soccer players like
Marta and Alex Morgan who just recently retired. And it's
to this recent news which happened a few months ago,
Naomi Germa just signed for Chelsea for a record fee
of one point one million dollars. Y'all, you I could
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even say two years ago that number wasn't even something
that like you'd even joke about because it wasn't ever
normal or possible. But now the valuation of players and
that clubs and les are putting on these on these
players is continuing to grow. And that's what I want
to say is that when one athlete, well one female athlete,
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when one let's just say Latina sets that bar, the
bar is only going to keep on growing and it's
going to provide more of a pathway for other people
to be able to reach it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And you see, like, you know, when we are giving
this opportunity as women to hold the stage, to hold space,
like it was with the Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano fight.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You watch that fight.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, that fight was insane.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Also, Amanda Sano was robbed. I'm just gonna drop that there.
I think she should have won. I was so upset.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
But like, they earned millions of dollars for that boxing match,
and it was like the best match of the night.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Everybody talked about it. They were like and this is
women in boxing.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Absolutely, Like everyone was like, oh, the main card had
had nothing on this. So they earned like six point
one million for Katie Taylor earned six point one million
for the fight, and Serrano reportedly earned around eight million
for that fight, which is huge progress even though yeah,
it's progress because it's it was the best fight of
the night. Yet they made you know, a tenth if
not less than that of like what these tien and
(09:55):
oh yeah, let's not even get started there, right, but
it is nice to see that when we we are
given those opportunities to perform on a big stage, you know,
it is being recognized.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's just about you know.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Also, I was thinking, like our entire lives, you know,
we were told like being too muscular, being too athletic.
It's like not feminine, it's not what we're supposed to do.
You have to stay at home, take care of the family,
and that has recently stopped, like you know, very very recently.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
So now you know, society, our community.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, especially in the Latino community. So now society is
getting a little bit more used to like, oh okay,
like this is it. Women in sport is a new thing, right, yeah,
and it doesn't that's not to say that it's not
going to be extremely successful. Like we you know, we've
been around playing sport for a very long time. But
socially accepted, valued, cherished, and championed is what we want
this to be.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
At the same that it is with men in sport
coming out.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I could talk to you from my own experience. I
am born and raised in South Florida. My parents are
both Colombian and when I got the opportunity to try
out for the Colombian national team at eighteen years old,
I went down alone. My parents didn't come with me
on that and Untio Lejano, like, I don't know, second
uncle picked me up from the airport and he my
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mom had shared with him, like, yeah, she's gonna go
there for a soccer tryout with the national team. And
at the time, like there was no coverage, nobody really
even knew that the national team even existed. The women's
national team, of course, because in the men's there was rama.
You know, everybody knew the men's team. And I will
never forget the moment at eighteen years old where women's
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soccer in the United States was normal. It was it's
It was the most popular women's growing sport in the
country because of the nineteen ninety nine ers Julie Faudi
et cetera. And I get there and my TiO Lejandro
Lehano told me, what are you doing, mi Haakiasis, like
what are you doing? You know, Aquro, yes, exactly exactly.
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And when he said that, I was a little bit
like taken aback. I was confused because I knew that
in the States, it's not like that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It was not like that.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I did see, you know, somewhat of a future, but
it wasn't about that. It was more about like the
passion and the way that he just it totally like
just took away that like that feeling I had, like,
oh my god, I'm about to go travel my national team.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
No, no, it was that Hugando football.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
So that's one example of how our Latin culture has
kind of pushed girls. I was a girl or just
you know, eighteen years old, young woman out of sport. Yeah,
to push me to get out of sport, you know,
that wasn't my place to be. And also it's so
important because what sport has done for me in my life.
(12:57):
I never would have imagined if I look back at
eighteen year old man, of what soccer or sports in
general have.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Done for me. Right, it's incredible, it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I am the person that I am today and I
am the fighter that I am today because of everything
that I learned, you know, through running cross country, running distance,
running marathons, dancing professionally. It's a lot of you know,
learning that you have about yourself, and it's even entrepreneurship
because you're like fighting for yourself for a team, You're
learning how to work with people, You're learning how to
work together. It teaches you so much about life and
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about how to compete, but in also a way that's
healthy with other.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
People that surround you. That's just so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So it makes me really sad too when we hear
stories about girls in sport that are not being motivated
to like follow their dreams because they don't think that
there is a future there.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And I totally understand sometimes with like immigrant parents.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, we're both latinas I was worning on Adina
grew up in Miami. You know, with immigrant parents, sometimes
they want to look out for you and they're like,
what are you going to do? You need to be now, Dora,
you need to be an attorney, Like how is fitness
going to be the thing? But you know, if you
are working really hard towards something, you can make it happen.
But I know that it's very frustrating sometimes, you know,
when you work so hard and you are on par
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with these people that you're working with, and yet you
are not being compensated fairly.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Right, So I have my.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Personal experiences, you know, with unfairness, you know, and pay gap, right,
So like there are brands you know that I work
with outside and opportunities that I'm given outside of my
peloton job. And I had conversations with which thankfully, I
think it's very important for us Las Latinas and as
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women and women in your same space to feel more
confident and empowered to talk about how much money you're making,
to talk about finances so we can become more financially literate.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And it doesn't end that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I getra like it did for me, but also so
you're aware of the things that you could fight for, right.
I had a conversation you know with my male counterpart
who we have you know, the same what print on
social the same footprint or whatever, and they were offered
around forty five percent higher by the same brand for.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
A deal with the same deal points. Why Yeah, just
because I'm a woman.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
There's no there's no there's no reasoning behind it. There's
literally wonder I wonder, I wonder, like who is that person?
It's like, you know what, you know, we're gonna offer
commed this much you know, right.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Well, it's also different departments to different departments have different
marketing budgets, like multicultural marketing. What is multicultural marketing number one?
And why is the budget so small? Where like Latinos,
we have so much money to spend.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Like we're not just poor, you guys, Like we.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Have money, biggest one of the biggest impacting growth in
the economy actually the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
One thousand, one thousand percent.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And then bringing it back to the general market, Latina
Equal Payday is in October. So Latinas make fifty eight
cents to the dollar to white non Hispanic males, right,
So that means that we have to work once the
year ends from January all the way to October to
make the same amount of money that are white non
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Hispanic counterparts make.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Which we repeat that Latinas make fifty eight sense to
white non Hispanic dollars dollar. That is insane. That is
insane and absolutely ridiculous. Another another thing to share with
you all, because we want to we want to heighten
you up like we want to hype you up. We
want you to go out and know your worth. We
want you to get what you deserve. But also just
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know this is the background information. This is why we
need to come together as a community to break this narrative,
to break these on average, Latina workers stand to lose
more than one point two million dollars throughout their lifetime
over the course of let's say a forty year career.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
My face, if you could see my face right now,
it's like you have like cockupf face cockface.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah no, but seriously, in comparison to a non Hispanic
white man, we are the gap is one point two
million dollars over the course of a career forty your career.
That is absolutely insane. That's that's even creating and helping
next generations generational wealth, right, I mean, and Gumi, I
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have a very similar experience as yours, where thankfully and
you know, we have allies in our life, right right,
it's thankful to your coworker that shared and was open.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Right that I found out about that. Right it could
be like, hey, no, this is messed up, like I'm
not going to do this exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, and imagine if you would have taken that and
then it could affect you, know, how you perform.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I wanted to take it, honestly, it was a dream
for me, like I dreamt of working at this capacity
with this brand and with these people, but I refuse
to do it because I wanted to stand up not
only for myself but for other Latinas to come in
the space. We can't continue to accept that from people
that should know better, even though they have different marketing budgets,
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Like that's not necessarily an excuse any.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
More, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So I'm very thankful and grateful because I see my
friends as allies that I can talk to, not only
my male counterparts, which is extremely helpful to have that
my female counterparts as well. And I just also want
to make it clear that I'm lucky enough to.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Not face that happened to me at Peloton.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm very fairly compensated, and you know, I have spoken
to my male counterparts about like what they're making, and
I'm very happy and proud to be able to say
that I work at a place where that's not the case.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
For sure, absolutely absolutely, And I am super thankful to
my other brands. Take notes literally literally in broadcasting, it
happens too, and I've worked for a ton of networks,
so yeah, of course, of whatever years, and I'm also
thankful to friends of mine as well, who have been
open to tell me and I've said note to things.
I have said yes to things of course to get
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those opportunities. But it's it's as you say, it's not
schools with that type of huge pay guy that both
you and I commie have and continue to to go through.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But we don't want we don't want you guys to
feel defeated, right like, we don't We want we want
to feel empowered to stand in our worth and to
fight for what's ours right. So your voice, your unique voice,
is valuable. Your unique voice matters, and our unique voice
needs to be represented at every single table female Latina
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Bipop communities. We need to be present in rooms where
people are making decisions about our communities. And if not,
we need to continue to cultivate great relationships with people
with allies that value us and that can't stand up
for us and be that voice in these rooms where
we're not present, and once we continue to stand in
that power and other people create opportunities for us, you know,
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reach back to and grab somebody from our community and
bring them up with us, you know, amen. My goal
in the position that I'm in right now is to
create as much awareness and and and space and be
so unapologetic about who I am and what I represent
that it just continues to build space, awareness, hype, visibility
for all the people. And then we continue to grow
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and create more space. You know, at Poton, there's nobody
else that's teaching classes in Spanish at the capacity that
we're doing in such a large fitness capacity. Like, I'm
so proud to be representing that for us. So we
have to continue to like stand in our worth, like
understand that our value is not necessarily tied to not
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necessarily our value is absolutely not tied to what other
people consider our value to be. Our voice matters because
of who we are, where we were born, experiences that
we've had.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And add that bilingual to that dollar.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Oh yeah, translator translating is extra on that note.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Let's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So when we come back, I'm sharing an album I'm
loving and Mel has some sports for you.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Do not go anywhere. Although I know that we can
talk about this topic forever. Welcome back, y'all.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Okay, every episode, Camie and I are going to leave
you with two of the things that we love the most.
For Kami, it's Moaby and for me, I said football.
So when I was thinking about this segment, like what
do we call this? And I was thinking about soccer,
you know, having an assist to a goal in Colombia
A there's a saying and it's agama.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
When it happens is when you're on the field and
someone crosses you the ball in that moment when they
see you and you're about to get that ball and
score it, you scream in the air so that you
scored that that cross that you're about to assue.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Because the person that gets the recognition is the person
that scores the goal.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Unless people know about sport and they're like watch that past.
So you know what, I Am going to get you
with the biggest assists and muse it and then Meli's
gonna hook you up with sports so that when you
take over the ox scord at your party, you don't
play you know, some whack ass songs that like everyone's
gonna be like, okay, sit down in it time for
you know you're not gonna get no no, no, no no,
(22:15):
And Meli's got your back, so that when you're talking
to people about you know, sports, you sound, knowledgeable.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
And also to to grow your passion and love for
women's sports and women supporting other women.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Because we're not perfect and we are trying to continue
right to support absolutely. Okay, So I got you with music?
What do I have on repeat? Right now? I have
the preview of the new group? Have you heard of them?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I have?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
This is the latest news right yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
This is Rawayana and my Sterio, members from both of
those groups, which if you have not heard Rawayana and SiO,
you're living like you need a pat like come out
of your rock because they are absolutely iconic and they
have teamed up together. And this is one is near
(23:05):
and dear to my heart because they're releasing twelve tracks
on this album and they're all tied to the zodiac signs.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
A girl, you love zodiac signs, I'm not good at it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You know them like, okay, but I don't know that
much like there's some people that like, you know, No,
I'm not an astrologist, okay, but I aspire to know.
I know a lot about my sign, okay, which technically
leads me I'm a sage.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Technically that leads me to have a lot of excuses.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
About my behaviors and not take a lot of responsibility
because you know, I am direct, I do like to travel,
and I am very last minute and spontaneous, but.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You are no excuses. What's your sign again, I'm Aquarius, Aquarius?
What's aquarii?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Aquerii is go with the flow, creative, We're like the water,
but also like to be energetic, okay, pumped up people.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
We like to go full force, have big energy.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
And I love that about you, thank you, because I'm
going more go with the flow and Meli is a
little bit more of a planner I think. Anyway, coming
back to the album, Lisa and they are released a
couple of tracks Metpasa, which is Pisces right, it's like
lush afro beats.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I love that one.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
So once you remember a song, oh my god, I'm
so proud of you around.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, and then there's gas for how do you say
that in English? Taro Taurus Taurus, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That one I feel like it is very fun like
the beat is like very like lively.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And then as which is a scorpio.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That's scorpio because you're wondering that was more passionate and
I like that it's like God as Ona intro talking
about the heart.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
My husband's a Scorpio. I'm scared of scorpio intense.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know, honestly, I'm married to a scorpio and you know,
I'm gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
If you're a scorpi, let us know. We need to
know how you how you are. They're intense.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
They're intense, but they're very passionate, and they're very loving,
and they're very loyal, right, they always got your back,
so fear not. Anyway, I'm really excited for the rest
of the tracks to drop, and they're gonna continue to drop,
so make sure that you check them out and then
obviously thank me later because this is like the perfect
like beach vibes, and if you watch the music videos
that they release, absolutely iconic and I'm a huge Bale
(25:25):
my studio fan. You know, my uh peloton like release
like launch video was inspired by bone myst video, so
it hold they hold the very and.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
If you guys don't know, has done incredible collapse even
what's the one with Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah that's a good one. But already, like there's just
so so many tracks that they have already and just
to like play it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I have them in my backgroundhen I'm working. Sometimes it's
a good mood.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I just like I want to hang out with them
me too, Like just like maybe we should have them all?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Maybe we should. Yeah, Okay, well, don't make that happen
if almost not me?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Like, what are tips if we want to get into
watching women's sports, because this is one of our first
episodes and the goal here is to get us all
into it.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Absolutely, guys. I know, even from experience and within my community,
a lot of us might not watch sports or women's sports,
and this is about women empowering and supporting other women,
as we talked about everyone everyone, as we talked about
earlier in this episode, when one women succeeds, it makes
and it allows another woman to succeed. And it's the
(26:28):
same in our community. So my tip for you coming
and our listeners is to be more involved. Okay, if
say on the TV, a men's game is playing, awesome,
enjoy it, but also remember there's a women's game, whether
it's at WNBA, whether that's NWSL, whether it's women's soccer,
whether it's the US women's national team, Calemby National team,
(26:49):
whatever it is, whether it's boxing too. We need to
change the narrative and we need to make sure that
we are supporting our own people, our own fellow women,
who are all so breaking barriers and creating opportunities for us,
for creating opportunities for future generations and maybe for our
daughters one day.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, well this is it for today's episode. Thank you
guys so much for listening in. For more podcasts, listen
to the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen
your favorite shows. Until then, keep dropping it low an
(27:34):
iHeart women's sports production and partnership with Deep Blue Sports
and Entertainment.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
For more podcasts, listen to the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows,
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